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Sendai City is preserving the Arahama Elementary School building as a tsunami memorial, so as to pass down the lessons learned from the disaster to future generations while striving to reduce the impact of the damage and casualties in the event of a tsunami that may occur in the future. The memorial facility has been open to the public since April 2017.
Located about 700m inland from the coastline, Arahama Elementary School was attended by 91 students before the 2011 disaster. Although the tsunami flooded the school building with water up to the second floor, 320 persons, including students, teachers and staff of the school and nearby residents who had evacuated to the building, were all safely rescued by the next day.
Inside the school building, visitors learn about the tremendous damage that can occur during a tsunami through photos of destroyed classrooms and photos taken immediately after the tsunami struck the school in 2011.
There are also DVDs on the history of the Arahama area and materials that recall the elementary school before the disaster so that these memories can be conveyed to future generations.

InquiriesDisaster-Resilient and Environmentally-Friendly City Promotion Office, City Planning Policy Bureau
mac001605@city.sendai.jp